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崛

jué

Character

What 崛 means

1. towering as a peak

Example sentences

• 当炸弹袭击了我们的港口、暴政威胁到全世界，她见证了一代美国人的伟大崛起，见证了一个民主国家获得拯救。是的，我们能做到。
  Dāng zhàdàn xíjī le wǒmen de gǎngkǒu, bàozhèng wēixié dào quánshìjiè, tā jiànzhèng le yīdài Měiguórén de wěidà juéqǐ, jiànzhèng le yī gè mínzhǔ guójiā huòdé zhěngjiù. shìde, wǒmen néng zuòdào.
  When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness, and a democracy was saved. Yes, we can.

Words starting with 崛

• 崛起jué qǐto rise abruptly (to a towering position); to tower over; to spring up
• 崛立jué lìto tower over; rising (to a dominant position)
• 崛地而起jué dì ér qǐlit. arising suddenly above the level ground (idiom)…

Words containing 崛

• 奇崛qí juéstrange and prominent

Characters built on 屈

These share the phonetic component 屈 (qū), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 掘juéto dig
• 倔juéused in 倔强

Characters that look like 崛

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 喔ō(interjection) oh; I see (used to indicate realization, understanding)
• 狼lángwolf
• 娟juānbeautiful; graceful
• 喱lígrain (unit of weight, approx. 0.065 grams); Taiwan pr. lǐ
• 峨élofty; name of a mountain
• 堀kūcave; hole

Sounds the same

Read jué, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 觉to feel; to find that; thinking
• 决to decide; to determine; to execute (sb)
• 绝to cut short; extinct; to disappear
• 掘to dig
• 倔used in 倔强
• 爵ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle; nobility
• 角role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel
• 脚role (variant of 角
• 诀to bid farewell; tricks of the trade; pithy mnemonic formula…
• 厥to faint; to lose consciousness; his
• 蕨Pteridium aquilinum; bracken
• 攫to seize; to snatch; to grab